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Why Is It So Slow??

You probably aren’t here because of my stunning great looks or because you frequent computer repair sites to see what’s happening in the Nerdery. You either want information, or someone who knows what they are talking about. Well, I am to talk about your slow machine. Why is it slow? It could be these: Your [...]

Catch Up & Back Up

Yes, it’s that friendly reminder time, again.  Thanksgiving and Christmas are right around the corner.  If you haven’t completed a good backup, you better do so this weekend or next, because you know as well as I do, you won’t touch the “necessary” until January.  Also, you need to make sure you verify your backup. [...]

iPhone & iPod Battery Life Bugs?

    iPhone 4S Battery Life Bugs Got You Down? Try This | TechCrunch. If you are tech savvy and can try this on your, have at it!  If you need help with saving some battery life on your new iPhone, give me a call and we can go through it together.   Levi Sheriff [...]

Back-up Your Digital Life

I am always searching for the best products to make my client’s lives easier.  You’ll see in many of my posts, that reigns true. Saturday night after my wife’s birthday party I was just chillin and doing what nerds do.  I found a network back-up drive from Western Digital: This is not just a hard drive. [...]

Washing Technology

So this is a bit off topic, but good info none-the-less. The last washing we did for the week did not finish. We discovered that our washer broke. So, I did what any sensible Friendly Nerd does. I got on YouTube and learned all about washers. Then I went to the basement and started the [...]

Preparation time is not wasted time

Tonight was a pleasant night, with a break in the needs of my customers. So the family and I went out for a walk across town. When we got home, I put time into organizing my shop and getting ready for next week. I was able to listen to a couple episodes of The MacGeekGab. [...]

Dirty Little Device

So the first iDevice that I cracked open was a iPod 3rd Gen from an owner of a big name auto repair shop here in Mason City. It was dropped in the snow and ran over by a skidloader. Yes, it still worked! He had an issue where it would shut down without warning. When [...]

Lessons Learned

I learned a valuable lesson about older machines and the hard drives that they use. Continue to buy PATA (EIDE) drives from EBay and install. You really need to know who and what you are looking for. You don’t want to buy the 7 year old hard drive that Joey had in his computer and [...]